What is Digg?54 Comments
- superalamar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20each time you clear your cookies it could reup all consistantly used usernames and passwords. it could open your ten favorite pages in tabs with one click. With a little work you could monitor the surfing of firefox at home from work, and when you son logs onto porn you could kick him to a site that says "I know your looking at porno bobby"
- thisisnotsam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7There isnt a memory leak. 1.5 keeps the rendering of the last 5 pages of each tab in memory for faster responce when clicking back. if you have loads of tabs and have been browsing them all for hours then it builds up. try closing all the tabs and the memory goes down. you can change this in the about:config somewere.
- pigdart, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3yes thats a good idea to store all you information in plain text, you know because your computer is unhackable
- mathmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Say you want to check to see what the latest episode of House is:
New Test
New Test
open "/"
assertTitle "tvtorrent.info - your source for tv torrent information"
click "link=Series list"
pause "1000"
assertTextPresent "House"
click "//a[@id='65' and @onclick='javascript:showSeries(65)']" - shoota, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2in response to my previous comment, it does break adblock 0.6.1.2. However if you download the developer build 0.6.1.2+ of adblock plus, it restores adblock plus functionality.
- alecks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, please tell me there's an easier way to run these than: Tools -> Selenium - File - Open - Play.....
Anyone? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You could (should) use it for automated functional testing of your web-apps etc. That's basically what the Selenium framework is meant for.
- cliph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3TestGen4Web ( http://developer.spikesource.com/wiki/index.php/Projects:TestGen4Web ) can also do this, there's a Firefox extension ( http://developer.spikesource.com/frs/?group_id=14 ) too.
- ocbeta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I see this as lending itself to click fruad already making news elsewhere.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2006/03/06/daily58.html - shoota, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't think of this previously but this could make for an interest F5 attack like we saw previously posted here on digg.
- TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It isn't for the latest version of firefox. I can't use it. This is a real let down.
Eric Wilson - dbzer0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unless there is an easier way to activate the scripts than with the slow "Tools -> Selenium - File - Open - Play..." way, this is indeed only for devs.
- richliquid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2works great. does exactly what it says.
- shoota, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1unfortunately it causes adblock 0.6.1.2 to stop function when you install it. Anybody know of a fix for this?
- NotAPoet, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7You could spam digg endlessly.
- detrate, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Sounds like this could be dangerous...
- arbonboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I have seen this in action and it is pretty slick. I use a more technical and deeper form of Selenium, but this is great for quick macros and little jobs.
- toekneebullard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Anyone have any more examples of what you could use this for?
- dance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2But how, chaps, do I add a button to my bookmarks toolbar to run one of these scripts? How are they called?
- mathmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You could use it to easily check what the latest episode of House was available as a torrent:
open "/"
assertTitle "tvtorrent.info - your source for tv torrent information"
click "link=Series list"
pause "1000"
assertTextPresent "House"
click "//a[@id='65' and @onclick='javascript:showSeries(65)']" - bostond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't seem to work well with dhtml forms.
- moosetooth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You should check out Pestercat. It's a very powerful web testing tool that you set your browser to proxy through. You can record a set of requests, set parameters, filter requests, and much more. Check it out here http://www.pestercat.com
- Dycacian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1have you tried using the nightly tester tools extension with this on the latest version? I have yet to see any major issues with extensions when using the tester tools to get by the version issues.
- dergachev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if only you could write a script for that....
- arbonboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have limited experience with Selenium itself as found at: http://www.openqa.org/
We have an open source tool that we work on that uses the Selenium Core engine as one of our backend engines for our Open Source project, Tomato. (See http://forge.novell.com/tomato) Essentially, the idea behind tomato is that you write an automation script in one language that can be run by different automation tools such as Selenium, Mercury, etc. That way if your company switches tools on you, or your current automation tool doesn't handle a platform that you do, then you can switch tools without rewriting your automated scripts.
This was probably a lot more than what you were looking for, but hey, I am in a meeting, what else do I have to do? :-) - alecks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, an example would be your online statement with some bank or cc... I usually have to click a few things, log in, go to the right account, filter whatever before I get to the data. With this, you can script all that and have it do it for you.
- elvis314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is great. I use both a javascript IE DOM web automation tool and a ruby automation tool (windows only) and love it. Mainly this was written to automation posting listings on ebay/craigslist, but I also use it for software testing. This tool isn't quite as powerful, but very slick.
- pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Damn, that's nice! I've been doing my web testing with Watir and IE, but this looks like it could really simplify that.
- misbach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like pestercat, problem is that it doesn't support recording https sites.
- arbonboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1True, it is a great tool for fraud. But you can't blame the tool. There are a lot of automation tools out there that could do the same thing. This tool is just a great success story for open source initiatives in the realm of automation.
But yes, "My what big teeth you have. The better to eat you with my dear!" to quote the common fairy tale.
Hopefully the benefit outweighs the risks. - dognose, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2You can already open ten tabs with your favorite links in one click, put your bookmarks in a folder on your toolbar and click "open in all tabs"
- daftcain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It doesn't seem very secure... it records passwords and displays them right in the open. if someone wanted to steal passwords on a public computer they could install this and have it record everything then very easily come back later and view the passwords or everything else recorded.
- themacboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For us suckers that work in QA, this is a god send!
- GeorgeLawson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There's this software called Newbie http://www.mynewbie.net that comes with a web automation IDE and compiler. Their website says they have it for IE and working on a Firefox version.
- ghostdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ignore this
- ironcamel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeah, dude. I use pestercat everyday. It rocks! You can even use it to interface with the backend database of your webserver.
- misbach, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0iMacros looks nice, but I have to have a tool that runs on Linux.
- Trkstr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0arbonboy: where can one get hold of this deeper more technical form of Selenium?
- tmcpheeters, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I use iOpus - Internet Macro Recorder: http://www.iopus.com/
There is a free version available, very nice piece of software, but for IE. - shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2you could automate those online games, i found one that gave out "money" if you got say 20$ and i made a script to play it every night after almost a month i had about 5$ more in the account. just a example, not a good one
- toastgodsupreme, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Indeed. Shouldn't take long for someone to come up with ways of abusing it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Sounds very slick, but i can think of a number of very nasty uses for something like this that many script kiddies will find useful.
- Xoligy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Oooh a whole $5? Where do I sign up?
- KiltedMile, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Great idea, very slick - I bookmarked for when I finally think of a use... Maybe to continually check Google Analytics to see if they're allowing new users to sign up! ;)
- Blah_Blah_Blah, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2looks awesome, and id love to try it, but it keeps saying (paraphrased) "Selenium IDE could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 1.5.0.1. It is only compatible with versions 1.5 to 1.5.0.*"
weird - astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2automate porn retrieval...
- alecks, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Who uses the address bar to navigate anymore... Noob. Make a button on your Bookmarks toolbar
- bttis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1This will make stuffing the ballot box on online polls pretty trivial. Oh no! Does this mean I can no longer trust the results of such polls?!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Off topic but does anyone know if its possible to sort the recent sites in the address bar? I visit Digg 32 times an hour, yet Digg, is way at the bottom since that is the first site I visited last time I cleared the History. New sites stay at the top, instead of moving down when I visit Digg again. Not the History, the address bar! Maybe an extension like this could help?
- elroy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3i need something that posts insults on digg.
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